The Client Living in a Riverfront Community Is Seeking Help

question 16

Multiple Choice

The client living in a riverfront community is seeking help with an extreme fear of bridges, which is interfering with daily functioning. The psychiatric nurse practitioner decides to try systematic desensitization. Which best explanation of this treatment should the nurse provide?

• A) "Using your imagination, we will attempt to achieve a state of relaxation."
• B) "Because anxiety and relaxation are mutually exclusive states, we can attempt to substitute a relaxation response for the anxiety response."
• C) "Through a series of increasingly anxiety-provoking steps, we will gradually increase your tolerance to anxiety while in a relaxed state."
• D) "In one intense session, you will be exposed to a maximum level of anxiety that you will learn to tolerate."

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